anyone think that the more and bigger muscles an athlete has, the more and greater the chance they can get a muscle/ligament/soft tissue injury?

Just seems to me the more ripped a dude is, the more likely he'll tear a muscle, achillies etc. some of these guys seem maxed out to me.

yeah, always thought that, those guys w/only 1-3% body fat, e.g. Bo Jackson couldn't stay healthy in football. Herschell Walker was an exception to that though, he stayed pretty healthy & had a very long career. In general it's always seemed the guys that had a little body fat were more durable.

I didn't realize the franchise tag for a safety was only around $6M per. That's basically what he cost us this year...

I think that makes the most sense on how to deal with Laron and the contract. Clearly he has not proven with injury and play the last couple years to demand a large, guarantee contract. Its in the best interest of the organization to use the tag on Laron to clearly see what we have going forward. 6-7 mil one year deal is little risk.

__________________ “Nobody’s going to be handed a job; not my standpoint, and I know Jay feels that way and I know Bruce feels the same way. You have to earn it. That’s what the NFL is about. Prove to me that you deserve to be on the field,’ and that’s the way it has to be in the NFL.”- McC

yeah, always thought that, those guys w/only 1-3% body fat, e.g. Bo Jackson couldn't stay healthy in football. Herschell Walker was an exception to that though, he stayed pretty healthy & had a very long career. In general it's always seemed the guys that had a little body fat were more durable.

imo one of the the most overrated players of all time

__________________ “Nobody’s going to be handed a job; not my standpoint, and I know Jay feels that way and I know Bruce feels the same way. You have to earn it. That’s what the NFL is about. Prove to me that you deserve to be on the field,’ and that’s the way it has to be in the NFL.”- McC

anyone think that the more and bigger muscles an athlete has, the more and greater the chance they can get a muscle/ligament/soft tissue injury?

Just seems to me the more ripped a dude is, the more likely he'll tear a muscle, achillies etc. some of these guys seem maxed out to me.

The only time that would be the case is if a player spends all of his time building certain muscle groups without putting equal time in building those antagonist muscles for support. For example, if a person spends all of his time on his quads, and no time on his hamstring muscles, it's going increase injury to those weaker hamstrings.